title: [Current state of treatment for advanced gastric cancer].
abstract: The radical treatment of gastric cancer is complete resection of the tumor by surgery. For advanced gastric cancer, a multidisciplinary approach has been attempted to improve patient prognosis. Potentially resectable and curable advanced gastric cancer is treated with routine surgery, followed by postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy. For highly advanced gastric cancer, extended radical surgery or preoperative adjuvant chemotherapy have been attempted. Laparoscopic gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer has not been widely used because of the difficult surgical technique involved, but enhanced magnification in the surgical field is expected to improve the accuracy of the lymph node dissection procedure. In future, the significance of currently available treatments should be investigated. The key treatment for advanced gastric cancer at present is surgery.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Gastrointestinal Surgery, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Keiji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kiyokawa
authors.forename: Kazuhiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukuda
authors.forename: Fumihiko
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hatao
authors.forename: Masashi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ueda
authors.forename: Ikuo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Wada
authors.forename: Nobuyuki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shimizu
authors.forename: Sachiyo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nomura
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Seto
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005743:Gastrectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*